Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
The Phishers team—representing University of Maryland College Park, Poolesville High School, and edX—tested Random Forest, Ada Boost, and Decision Tree classification during the Catch the Phish challenge at Universities at Shady Grove. Photo: Eny Hathaway Authors:...
Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Amanda Andrei Is artificial intelligence (AI) the way of the future… or already the way of the present? Applications of AI surround us in our daily lives – ever use an app to get around traffic? How about checking your social media feeds? Or shopping online?...
Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo courtesy of Pixabay Author: Cameron Boozarjomehri When you look at the image above, what you see is just a wolf in the snow. How do you know it’s a wolf in the snow? Well, I could go off on a long tangent about how your eyes receive light that your brain...
Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing
Author: Michelle Herd The MITRE Corporation, in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), released the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook in October 2018. The playbook outlines a framework for...
Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
James Ellenbogen and Ruba Emran. Photo: Andy Cleavenger Author: Russell Woolard Ruba Emran was assigned the task of exploring what she calls a “science fiction idea”—one that’s been around for a while, but whose time, so far as practical application, has not yet...
Oct 1, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Members of MITRE’s Multicultural Employee Resource Group celebrate Hispanic heritage at Luzia a Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the richness of the Mexican culture. Photo used with permission. Author: Dr. Asma Abuzaakouk What is the business value of...
Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo Credit: Michael Baker Author: Lisa Pacitto Imagine waiting 30 minutes or longer to get through to a customer service center and when your call is finally answered, you can’t understand what the service representative is saying because you have a hearing...
Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Author: Shelley Kirkpatrick Once every few months, I find myself in a meeting where a problem has just been solved and now some sort of action is needed to put a solution in place. My initial excitement about making real progress is often...
Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Image courtesy of Pixabay Author: Amanda Andrei You are part of the design team tasked with implementing a modern chip-and-PIN ATM system for your newest customer: a large banking chain. The bank has contracted an outside firm to design the user interface of the ATM...
Jul 28, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY 3.0 Author: Jennifer Myers You may remember the childhood party game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey (or Bunny or Pig—depending on the party theme), where dizzy, blindfolded partygoers are challenged to position a...
Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Cross-Organizational Information Sharing, Learning Organization
Photo credit: Dylan Gillis at Unsplash Author: Jeff Brooke MITRE loves data. MITRE practitioners are passionate about solving problems using scientific evidence, and this is just as true for social scientists at MITRE as it is for engineers. Here is how MITRE...
Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Learning Organization
Photo courtesy of Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei Chances are, you’ve interacted with an embedded system today. Did you use a thermostat? How about a car? Or maybe a mobile phone? Or a television, a game console, an elevator, a train, a pacemaker? Embedded systems are...
Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Author: Lisa Pacitto Blockchain has essentially created a new type of internet in which information can be widely distributed without relying on traditional centralized architectures. Media coverage of Bitcoin, the digital currency (or cryptocurrency) for which...
Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Knowledge Advantage, Learning Organization
Author: Lisa Pacitto Our world and workplace are increasingly being aided by artificial intelligence, from personal assistants like Alexa to robots working on assembly lines. But, in most cases, people’s needs must remain front and center if we hope to solve our most...
Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Intranets, Business Process, and Knowledge Operations, Knowledge Advantage, Knowledge Operations, Learning Organization
Author: Amanda L. Andrei Federal acquisition is easy and straightforward, said no one ever. Rules, regulations, policies, procedures, definitions, requirements, contracts, forms—constantly updated and interpreted; contained in static PDF files, guides, references;...
Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo licensed under CC BY-NC-SA Author: Dr. Jennifer DeCamp On March 12, 2018, Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group announced: “We find that our latest neural machine translation system has reached a new state-of-the-art, and that the...
Jun 25, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media
Sacha Panic teaches Matthew Patron how to use the HoloLens. Photo credit: Michael Baker Author: Theresa Dillon Makers are inventors, tinkerers, and hobbyists. They are people who share a passion for building and creation. Why should companies encourage making? Because...
May 24, 2018 | Blog, Collaboration, Partnerships and Social Media, Knowledge Operations
This award-winning project enables the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to forecast the future aviation fleet in the United States and was featured in MITRE’s 2018 Knowledge Advantage Showcase.—Editor MITRE’s George Solomos and Simon Tsao use the...
May 17, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Author: Amanda Andrei Autonomy is a broad and complex topic, overlapping with artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, and human domains, with each domain needing to leverage systems engineering concepts to make sense of and use...
May 13, 2018 | Blog, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science
Intelligent voice assistants like Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are quickly becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Echo adoption has increased by three hundred percent in the past year alone. These on-demand, cloud-based voice services can tell us the weather,...
